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The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on voluntary contributions and legacies, which are received by the Treasurer, Edward Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; 'Terries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; aliams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street ; Masterman and Co. ; T. Barned and Co., Liverpool ; and at Hospital, from 10 till 5. STANFORD B. =ITU &MUT. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY. EVENING, DECEMBER 14, 1864. paper had called " the river-bed-type," and came closer than any others to the skill of the Australian native. One skull *which the professor po'nted to was a woman's, and was as degraded end villanelle in its form as any he had seen. The tibia-and the forearm, too, of this women were out of the ordinary proportion, which was a further alga of de gradation. The professor, in conclusion, said the remains afforded no ground for the theory that a " round headed" race had precede the "long-headed' race in the occupation of these islands. A long and animated discussion followed, in which a very general opinion was expressed that the re mains were not of so remote an antiquity as Mr -Laing believed. Er Thurnham expressed hi., concurrence in Pro fessor Huxley's conclusions, but denied that the mode of burial described by Mr Laing was a proof of the extreme antiquity of this race. Burial in the crouching position was by far the oldest, and the extended position was of comparatively recent introduction. On the whole, he should not date the remains later than some centuries after the Christian era. Professor Busk stated that sheep bones had been found in some excavations in this same neighbour hood, which was a proof that they were not of very great age. Mr Evans was also of opinion that there, was no rea son for assigning any extreme antiquity to the remains, and with one or two exceptions he believed that none of the stone implements had been fashioned for any particular purpose. Mr Christie saii the implements were certainly of an rude a dosceiption as any he had ever seen; and on the . whole he thought the remains presented the aspect of a people which had been forced by adverse circumstances to accept a civilisation much lower than that which was its normal character. Mr Craucurd said he had little faith in the power a of craniology to determine who these people were. He believed that they were the primordial Scotch men, the aboriginal inhahLants of the island, the direct ancestors of the l3ruces a pe Menaces, and the Burns. He caw no foundation whateteafor aaelievitag that these were the remains of two races. As for the suspicion of canni balism, ho did not,believe in it. Gibbon, on the authority of an obscure lying Roman historian, had endeavoured to fix the imput a ti on of cannibalism on the ancient Scats, but no people ever resorted to cannibalism which had plenty of animal food, which this people had. The introduction of the hog had done almost as much to root out cannibalism in New Zealand as Christianity. Mr Weight reminded Mr Craufurd that St. Jerome was an authority for the existence of cannibalism among the ancient Scotch tribes. He had seen prisoners of them in Gaul, who he said were much fonder of the owners of the cattle than the cattle themselves, and Professor Hux ley, in reference to this point, said his inquiries had led him to the belief that cannibalism was one of the most extensive practices of humanity, and that the first thing which natu rally occurred to a man was not to love his neighbour, but to eat him. The Feejees, who were great cannibals, had plenty of animal food, and in Sumatra they did not wait to cook a man, bat cut him up and ate him cold with lemon, like an oyster. A cordial vote of thanks to Mr Laing and Professor Huxley closed the evening. Consp!racy to Capture one of the Panama ilaProad Company's Steamers, The Panama Star and Herald of the 21st Novenaa bar pubFshes the following account of an alleged conspiracy to capture one of the Panama Railroad Company's Central American steamers : " lam nut ion was received on the 25th ult. by the autho rities of the Panama Railroad th :.t a plot had been concocted for the se'zure of one of their steamers plying between Panama and Central American ports by a party of Con federate pirates, end that a number of the principal persons connected w;th the undertaking, whose names were given, were passengers on the royal mail steamer Tamar, from St. Thomas, which ariivcd at Aspinwall on the morning of that day, and intended taking passage in the company's steamer Gnatenaala, which sailed from this pot t on the same day, with the intention of putting their designs into execu tion. The Guatemala hav;ng put to sea before the arrival of the Tamer's passengers on this side, the plans of the pirates were for the time frustrated. As another of the com pany's steamers did not leave here before the 10th iv st., the conspirators were obliged to rema'n in this city till that date before an oppor&unity offered for them to carry out their diabolical purposes.. In the meantime information of the plot had been received from other sources, and the managers of the railroad fully. matured their plans for the capture o: the entire gang. The matter was kept a profound secret until about noon on Tuesday the 10th inst., when the steamer Salvador was ready to put to sea. The passengers were em barked as usual, apparently no suspicion being excited until all were placed on board the steamer. Immediately on corn . ing on board the passengers were requested to enter the main saloon, ell the other rooms has, ing been previously locked, in order to have their tickets examined and births assigned. A signal was then given to the commander of the United States frigate Lancaster, who with a force of aimed marines was stationed on and alongside the P.M.S.S. Company's steamer Sacramento, lying a short distance from the Sal vador, that all was ready. Captain Davenport was soon on board the Salvador with the requisite force, and after an nouncing to the passengers that he had Wren possession of the ship proceeded to read the passenger list, requiring each person to respand - to his name and show his ticket. Several were soon recognised as the persons of whom in formation had been received, and on being examined letters of reargue, commissions from the Confederate Government, handcuffs and arms were found on their persons. The evidence being conclusive, Captain Davenport took the steamer to sea, accompanied by the Lancaster. When beyond the jurisdiction of Columbia an investigation no doubt took place, and the guilty ones were transferred to the Lancaster. It is said that some 13 passengers, are sus pected of being implicated in the affair,several of whom are supposed to have joined the principal conspirators after their arrival in this city." A later edition says :—" We are enabled this morning to give some further particulars of the piratical attempt to seize the P.R.R. Co.'s steamer Salvador on the 10th inst., and of iuture plans of the pirates had they been successful; but prudence obliges us to withhold the full details of the plot for a few days longer, as although the principal leaders are under arrest, and the conspiracy has been rendered harmless. still there are many persons implicate) in the affair who have not yet been reached. The United States steamer Lancaster returned on the morning of Saturday, the 12th instant, bringing as prisoners seven of the persons who had taken passage in. the Salvador; on several of the other passengers suspicion was very strong, but on inves tigation the evidence was not found sufficient to warrant their being taken to the United States. From all we can learn, the plot must have been quite a gigantic affair—of proportions sufficiently large, had it been suc cessful, to have swept the United States commerce from the Pacific, and almost perfect in its concoction. From the orders of Mr Mallory, Secretary of the Navy of the Con federate States, to Captain Hogg, the leader of the party, and from other documents found, it appeared that Hogg, acting according to instructions, sailed from Wilmington, N.C., for Havana, and at the latter port enlistzd his associ ates, the paper containing their names and the oath to stand by each other until death being dated at that place. " From Havana the party COMO to Aspinwall via St. Thomas and the same steamer which brought them con veyed the full details of the plot and the names of the can. spirators from the United States Consul-General at Havana to the United States Consul in this city, and the latter im mediately gave the news to the commercial agent of the railroad. " Captain Hogg and his associates intended to take pas sage on the Guatemala, and when out at sea seize the ship. It is believed they have confederates on the coast, or on a vessel near by, who were then to join them, and that there are also persons connected with the plot on both the Cali. fornia end Central American steamers. "The instructions were then to int rcept the P,M.S.S. Company's steamer Sacramento on bier way to this port from San Francisco, take possession o'f the treasure, which amounted to over a million dollars, and if it could not be shipped safely across the Isthmus, to take it to ValFaraiso, and there deposit it with some reliable British house, or to ship it on board a French man-of-war, if one be found that would take it. With the guns, &c., to be found on board the Sacramento, the Guatemala might have been made a very dangerous vessel. The Sacramento carries one 100 pounder and four 20 pounder rifled Parrots, a large amount of shot and shell, some three dozen Sharp's r;fles, and other steal'-arms. These, together with the two guns-12 and 24 pounders—and the supply of small-arms already on board the Guatemala, would have given her quite a formidable armament. This, coupled with the fact that she is very fast, being able to steam 101 or 11 knots an hour, and can carry sufficient coal to enable her to steam 60 days, shows that she would have been•able to have captured or destroyed almost ally mercirent vessel under the United States, flag on the Pacific. But even had the pirates suc ceeded in possessing themselves of the Guaternals, the cap ture of the Sacramento would not have been quite so easy as they might have expeoted. On the 21st ult., the day previous to the sailing of the leiter from San Francisco, a despatch was received in that city from New York, reveal• ing the plot ; e similar despatch arrived here by the steamer of the 3d inst. ; Capt. Bradbury, of the Sacramento, was therefore on his guard, had his guns shotted and everything made ready to give the pirates a warm reception should they call upon hire. "As the programme of Messrs Hogg and Co. for the cap ture of the Guatemala and Sacramento fell through, they no doubt made up their minds to carry it out on the Salvador and the Golden City due here on the 16th inst. During the two weeks' stay of the pirates in this city they purchased 3001 b of No. 7 blasting powder suitable for cannon, had it put in tins and shipped on board the Salvador, and marked for some port in Central America, expecting to use it when they got possession of the steamers. "The details of the arrests on board the Salvador given , in our last issue contain one or two alight inaccuracies, but are in the main correct. " The principal papers, consisting of orders from Secre tary Mallory, correspondence, &a., were not found on the persons of the prisoners, as stated, but were discovered in a small satchel lying on a sofa in the saloon covered with a shawl, and were placed there by one of the parties, in hops that he would have an opportunity of destroying them be fore they were discovered. The commiss'ons were not found, but they are in existence, and it is known where they are deposited. In the baggage were found small arms of all kinds, amongst them were some French revolvers, eleven-shooters, handcuffs, &o. The cash-book of the purser showed the expenses of the company :rom the start, The leaders finding that the mole discovered revealed every thing connected• with the plot, made a clear confession of the whole affair a short time before coming into port. " The prisoners have not been placed in irons or close confinement on board tha Lancaster. They' are closely guarded on the gun deck, and receive the rations of prisoners of war. " Captain Hogg states that he is a Marylander, and hails from Baltimore. We understand he is an old hand at the sort of business in which he has just been detected. About four months ago he attempted to run the blockade at Wil mington in the Tristram Shandy; he was then taken prisonet but managed beforehand to throw his papers overboard. " On the 12th instant Rear-Admiral George F. Pearson, commander of the U.S. Pac'fic squadron ; Capt. Davenport and Paymaster Rittenhouse, of the U.S. frigate Lancaster; William Nelson, Esq., commercial agent of the P.R.R. Company; Col. Alexander AP.Kee, U.S. consul at Panama ; and W. Rice, Esq., consul at Aspinwall, called on the pre. sident of th;s State to ask permission to pass the seven pri soners now on board the Lancaster in this bry across the Isthmus, in older to send them to New York by the next ateamer..irom Aspinwall. The permission asked,for has been refused by the President, on the ground that he is not empowerel to grant it, but we presume the representatives of the United States Government will take the responsibility of sending their prisoners across the Isthmus notwith standing." The Invasion of Uruguay, PARIS, Dec. 13. The following are translations of the notes ad dressed by the English, French, Spanish, and Por tuguese Legations to Baron Tamandare, command. ing the Brazilian fleet, in reply to a notice from that officer that he should seize contraband of war on board foreign merchantmen : (Confidential.) Monte Vidco, Oct. 18. M. le Baron,—l have the honour to acknowledge the re ceipt this day of your Excellency's communication dated the 11th inst. marked confidential, in which your Excellency states the conduct the Imperial Government proposes to follow relative to the lamentable conflict which has now re vived in this country. In the same note your Excellency requests me to notify to the captains of British merchant men navigating those waters not to take on board troops or munitions of war for transport from one point to another, thus preserving the perfect neutrality which it appertains to them to observe under present circumstances. It is unnecessary for me to enter into the detail of the matters occupying the first portion of ycur Excellency's communication. In the latter part of this document your Excellency speaks of the painful duty which would be imposed upon you of ... , xercising constant vigilance ouer English ships, with the object of stopping, searching, and confiscating what your Excellency terms contrabanl of war which might b 3 found on board those ehips. In reply to this manifestation I have the honour to inform your Excellency .hat, from one point of view in which I look at this mattir, discussion cannot upon this opportunity be openly based upon the maintenance of neutrality. There ere no belligerent parties engaged in the present struggle, as the military chief who has thought proper to raise the standard of revolt against the Government of his oeuntry cannot be considered by me as a belligerent. He is simply a rebel. Where no belligerents exist there can be no neutrals. Further, in the absence, not only of a declaration of war between Brazil and the Eastern Republic, but also of a no tification of the blockade of those ports made with the cus tomary formalitiep, I cannot admit that the expression em ployed by your Excellency,of "contraband of war" can ba justly applied to any kind of merchandise carried by Eng lish ships in the coutse of legitimate trade. Consequently, therefore, I cannot also recogn ise the validity of the right now asserted by the Brazilian Government, under the vague pretext of exercising reprisals, to detain, search, perhaps even to take possession of English merchantmen navigating the waters of this Rapublic upon the fai'h of solemn treaties -waters in which Brazil does not exercise any authority. _ _ In conclusion, I have the honour to call your attention with reference to your Excellency's intimation relative to naval and military operations contemplated by Brazil against seats of commerce north of the Rio Negro, that if these operations become the cruse of injury to English sub jects.there resident, it will be for her Majesty's Government to judge in how far the Government of Brazil shall be re sponsible for such injury.—l have the honour, &a., M. le Baron, (Signed) W. G. LETTSOM. His Excellency Vice• Admiral Baron de Tamandare, &c. Legation of France, Monte Video, Oct. 19,1861. M. le Baron,—l hasten to reply to the circular nob your Excellency has done me the honour to address to me under date the 11th inst., and which only reached my hands yes terday. 'Without discussing the facts or appreciations of which the first portion of that note is composed, and confining my self to the principles which its tenor contains, I commence by asking myself by 'what right his Excellency proposes to the foreign agents to associate . themselves up t 5 a certain point with the extraordinary measures he has decided to pursue under the name of reprisAls. Has war been declared between the Imperial Govern ment and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay? Has there at least been a notification of the blockade with the indispen sable formalities and delays required by the law of nations, and the practice cf all civilised peoples ? In a state of affairs where neither belligerents nor nen■ trals exist, how are the laws relating to the right of search and to contraband of war applicable under the mere name of reprisals ? And nevertheless, his Excellency M. le Baron de Taman dare, considering all these rights as acquired by his Govern ment, after having notified b the agents naval and military operations which are going to take place in consequence, desires to conclude by asking them to concur in these stops by ordering the ships of their nations to submit to his re• quirements. What is more serious still, he adds that he shall thus be released from the painful but indispensable duty of exercising constant vigilance, and seizing such con traband of war as those ships shall have on board. In our turn, we fulfil the duty of notifying to his Excel. lency that it is impossible for us to admit on the part of the vessels placed under his crders the r;ghtoi stopping, search-. ing, or seizing, in time of peace, merchantmen navigating upon the faith of solemn troatie3 waters essentially free, and not even bordered by Brazil, and where such acts may even entail complications with the Argentine Republic, diplo matically bound on its own part to guarantee fluvial neu trality. I will not onclude without adding, that in case the ope rations of war announced under the name of rept isals against the rests of commerce situated on the north of the Rio Negro should occasion injury to the subject) of the Empe ror, my august Sovereign, it will be for his Majesty's Go vernment to determine how :far the responsibility for that injury will fall upon the Brazilian Government.—l profit by this opportunity, &e,, (Signed) M. MAILLEPER, Charge d'Affaires of his Majesty the Emperor of the French. His Excellency M. le Baron de Tamandare, Vice- Admiral Commanding the Brazilian Forces in La Plata. Legation of her Catholic Majeety. M. le Baron,—l had the honour to receive to-day the confidential,circular note your Excellency addressed to me under date of the 11th inst., and while abstaining from dis cussing the comments contained in the first portion of this note, relative to the steps taken by your Excellency towards the Eastern Government, in consequence of the special mis sion of Councillor Saraiva, I shall confine myself to reply. iug to the second part. In this your Excellency acquaints me that the Imperial Government has determined that its army shall expel the troops of the Eastern Government oc cupying the cities of the Republic north of the Rio Negro, and shell retain them by way of reprisals until it obtains the satisfaction demanded. In order that these troops shall receive no assistance from Monte Video, your Excellency asks me to give the necessary orders that ships sailing un der the Spanish flag (respecting neutrality) shall refuse to take on board troops and munitions of war, as in the oppo. site case you would find yourself under the painful but ine vitable necessity of exercising upon them constant vigilance, and of seizing such contraband of war as might Lo found on board. While thanking your Excellency for the I,yal and frank considerations employed in the note above mentioned, I find myself compelled, in replying thereto, to adhere to the prin ciples governing the matter in question. The Legation of her Catholic Majesty, M. le Baron, can not associate itself with your Excellency's intentions as to the extraordinary measures which you inform me you have determined to adopt under the name of reprisals, bef,re having carried into effect the formalitiem demanded by public PRICE ..4d STAMPED law, for my Government watches with great interest those guarantaes and securities which give its subjects established rules and principles. The vigilance to which your Excellency speaks of sub jecing the Spanish ships which navigate these rivers com prehends the right of search---.a right I must reject, pre testing against such a pretension with the utmost energy, so long as there has not been a declaration of war between the Imperial Government and that of the Eastern Govern ment, nor the antecedent of a notification of blockade. 'Without similar declarations establiOael by the right of nations, and the practice followed by all peoples, there can j be no belligerents and consequently no neutrals. How then could the laws relating to right of search and the seizure of contraband of war be applied under the simple name of reprisals ? 1 fulfil a duty in stating to your Excellency that it is im possible for me to admit that the naval forces under your orders should arrogate to themselves the right of stopping and searching Spanish merchantmen navigating waters essentially free (which do not wash any territory of the empire), as such acts might occ-sion complications which it is the interest of ail to seek to avoid. Before cancluding this note, I feel it my duty to add that in casa the operations of war your Excellency announces to me under the name of reprisals, against the towns of this Republic to the north of the Rio Negro, should occasion injury to Spanish interests and Spanish subjects, who are established there in great numbers, it will be for the Go vetnment of the Queen, my sovereign, to which I shall communicate your Excellency's note and my reply, to judge how far the responsibility for the injury occasioned ought to fall upon the Government of his Majesty the Emperor of Brazil.—l take this opportunity, &c., pEMEMBER! WE WAIL' SUPPER f or you 11, after the Covent Garden Opera, at EVANS'. Fail n nt 1 4 - sURNITURE, CARPETS, BEDDING, and FLOORCLOTH, CA RRIAG E-FREE to any house in the kingdom, regardless of amount or distance. First. class goods at second-class prices. Terms peculiarly liberal Clergymen and Gentlemen. 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Mr Laing gave an account of his operations, and de eoribed the various articles which had been found, and a lively discussion followed. Mr Laing said he had long been of opinion that important evidence in respect to the anti quity of man might bo discovered in this country by searches something resembling those which had been carried on in Denmark, by opening what were called the " Kitchen middens" there, and last summer he had caused several large mounds to be opened near Riess, in Caithness, about eight miles north of Wick. On removing the green turf at the top those mounds were discovered to consist chiefly of large masses of periwinkle and limpet shells, mixed with bones, flint splinters, and bone instruments of the rudest kind. In two there were remains of ancient buildings, and in one they came upon a building with solid massive walls, and three separate pavements one over the other, show ing evidence of successive occupation either by successive races or by the same rum at successive periods of time. In the lowest strata stone implements of the rudest kind had been discovered, but in the instruments found in the upper strata a greater finish o/ workmanship was dis tinctly traceable. In one case a pair of shears with the blades of bronze and handle of iron, and bone implements of various descriptions had been found mixed up with a mass of shells and bones of animals which had been used for food. Among these bones, too, had been dis covered part of the jaw of a child, with the teeth attached to it, broken across as if it were at the marrow, affording ground for a presumption that cannibalism was prevalent, or at least occasionally resorted to, among the race to which the remains refer. The specimens of pottery varied ac • cording to the strata in which they were found. In the lower strata they were rude and of a very poor character; in the upper they showed an improved manufacture and had occasionally a blue glaze. None of the stone imple ments showed the: mark of a tool, nor did the stones of which the buildings wore formed; but the sandstone of the distikt, which was chiefly used—there being no flint in the neighbourhood—split naturally so regularly that there was little necessity for this. Among the animal remains which had been identified were the bones of a small whale, which had probably been driven ashore and eaten, dolphins, and cod, the ox, horse, red deer in large quantities and of gigan tic size, wild boar, and goat. No sheep bones had been discoveied, which was an indication of great antiquity, as no sighs of the sheep had ever been discovered in the Swiss lake dwellings. Remains of the dog and fox, both as arti cles of food, of the cormorant, the solan goose, and the great awk (alca i,nprennis) had been found, but nine-tenths of the food of these people was shellfish. They had no fishing tackle, nor was 'there anything to indicate that they had any notion of fishing or boating, though they lived on the seashore. Their notions of art were of the rudest and most primitive description, but their architecture was more re spectable, and a spinning wheel which had been dug out seemed to show that they had some notion of manufac tures. Mr Laing also described the result of opening a long burial mound by the seashore, which he found full of stone coffins at regular intervals of 15 feet apart. The mode of sepulture was an additional proof of tho extreme antiquity of the people. The corpse was extended at full length on the ground, the stone cist was, built up round it with flat blocks of flagstone, and the whole was covered with a light mound of stone and earth. There were no traces of habitation about this mound ; it had been used solely as a placa of sepulture. About the centre of it was found the coffin of one who appeared by the care bestowed on his burial to be the chief of the tribe, and close by his hand were discovered 15 stone weapons of rude manu facture—a hatchet, sundry spearheads, and knives or scrapers. Mr Laing concluded that these remains belonged to the early stone period, and that the race to whom they belonged were part of the primitive population of these Wands, who in this remote corner of the country had long preserved the simplicity and rudeness of their modes of life. Professor Huxley then pointed out with elaborate minuteness the peculiarities of the human bones, from which ho concluded that they were the remains of two separate and distinct races. The first was typifi :d by a skull which, as the members would see for themselves, was large, capacious, and well arched. In fact, there were few of the ablest men present, the Professor said, who had a better developed cranium, and it closely resembled that type which was described in the Crania Britannica of Davis and Thurnhara as the "ancient British skull. The pelvis belonging to this skull was such as might be possessed by any well-grown muscular Englishman of the present day. The skull belonging to the second race was of .a mach lower order—narrow, low-formed, sloping upwards towards the vertex, and then downwards again, with a great occi pital protuberance, and a remarkably protruding upper lip. The pelvis, too, of this race was moat peouliar, its proper. tions being diametrically opposite to those of the present European type, and the extraordinary development of the muscular ridges showed a rude and wild character. These skulls were comparable to what the Frofesior in a former MARTIN Dr. HERNANDEZ, Charge d'Affaires of Spain. M. le Baron de Taroandaro, Vice-AdnaLal &c., (Signed) Legation of Portugal, Monte Video, Oct. 19, 1864. Your Excellency,—l had the homiur of receiving yester day the note your Excellency was good enough to forward under date of the 11th inst. In this note, after recapitu lating the result of the special mission sent to the Eastern Republic by his Majesty the Emperor of Brezil, and the instructions given to your Excellency by the chief of that mission to exercise reprisals by sea while the Brazilian army passed the frontier to carry out similar measures u?on land, you acquaint me that your Goveinment, de sirous not to hamper commerce nor to disturb peaceful subj eta or foreigners solely occupied with trade, had determined to let the effect of the reprisals fall upon those more nearly dependent upon the Government of the Republic, and thus to force it to give the satisfaction re quired. You state further that, moved by the subsequent proceedings of this Republic, the Goveinment of his Impe rial Majesty had resolved that his army should expel the forces which, depending upon the Government of the Re public, i,anisen the towns north of the Rio Negro, and to retain these towns in reprisal until such guarantees and satisfaction as had hitherto been va'nly demanded should be given, and that for this purpose your Excellency's squad ron would co-operate with the said army, using every effort that these garrisons should not receive assistance from the capital, nor be able to move by means of the rivers frima the points at which they ore now placed. For this purpose your Excellency requests that orders shall be given to the ships employed in the navigation of these rivers under the flag of my nation neither to receive troops or munitions of war, nor to transport them from one point to another, thus ob serving befitting complete neutrality, as in this way your Excllency will be relieved from fulfilling the painful and indispensable duty of exercising constant vigilance over them, and of seiztrg such contraband of war as might be on board, Without discussing th© contents of your Excellency's nob, I may be allowed to inquire whether, in view of the principles universally recognised, and war not having been declared between Brazil and the Eastern Republic, nor the blackade notified, with the formalities and circumstances required by the law of nations, and the practise of civilised peoples, in such a case either belligerents or neutrals can be said to exist ? And is it possible to exercise the right of search and arrest under the name of reprisals ? Your Excellency, however, considers that all these rights are gained by simply warning foreign nations that naval and military operations are about to take place. I am unable to abstain from declaring to your Excellency that it is impossible for me to admit that the ships under your orders have any rigbt to search, detain, or seizs the merchantmen of any nation navigating, under the faith of solemn treaties, waters essentially free, not even bordered by Crazll. I cannot conclude the present note wahout adding that, in case the operation of war, announced under the name cf reprisals, against the populations to the north of the Rio Negro—which cent tins numerous aad important interests of the subjects of his faithful Majesty the King my august Sovereign—should occasion them damage and injur thy Government will decide in how far the responsibility for such damage and injury shall fall upon the Government of his Majesty the Emperor of Brazil. I avail myself of this opportunity, &c., LEONARDO DE SOUZA LEITE ACEVEDO, M. le Baran de Tamandare, &a., &c. The Sinking of the Florida. A correspondent of the New York. World, writ ing from Fortress Monro on the 29,h ult., gives the following account of the sinking of the Florida On the 18th inst. the Florida, then lying at anchor in Hampton Roads, was ordered by the Navy Department to be taken up the James river and anchored under the guns of the ram Atlanta, off Newport News. She was com manded by Acting Master Jonathan Baker, who had a crew,of ten men, and there were besides Third Assistant Engineer Lannon, an acting ensign, and four firemen. On the 19fh the Florida was ordered to Norfolk to coal, and just before starting was run into by the transport steamer Alliance, and very seriously damaged. The transport struck her on the bow, knocking off her head chains and booms and otherwise injuring her. She was in very bad condition when captured, and all the time since her arrival here she has leaked so badly as to keep the steam pump engaged continually. The collision with the Alliance greatly increased the volume of the water which constantly poured into her, causing her to fill at the rate of eight inches an hour. On the arrival of the Florida at Newport News an additional pump was secured from the Atlanta, and the two were kept uninterruptedly at work. The position of the vessel was about half a mile from the shore, and three quarters of a mile below the At lanta. Here she had remained since the 20th. A very strict watch had been kept day and night, as it was supposed that measures might be taken by the rebels to attempt her de struction from the shore. About 9 o'clock on Sunday even ing one of the pumps on board suddenly gave out, throwing ate additional burden upon the remaining one, though the water was for a time apparently kept down as before. At half-past 12 Mr Baker inspected the pump, and, observing that the water was not then gaining, retire;]. An hour after wards the engineer in charge reported to him that he could not kelp the vessel clear, and that the water was gaining con stantly. The commander immediately called all hands, the deck pumps were rigged, and they commenced baling ac tively. The Atlanta was also signalled without delay, and two boats' crews were hurried from the ram to the aid of the sinking vessel. Before they arrived, however, the water had risen considerably above the fireroom floor, so that it was found necessary to put the fires out. The pump engine was thus stopped, and the water came pouring in at a fearful rate. It was impossible at any time, after it was found the ill-fated ship was sinking, to move her toward the shore, as there was 71h pressure of steam—just sufficient to work the pump., Neither was there means at hand for towing her ashore. From the fact that the boilers of the Florida were constructed for burning soft coal, and there was only hard coal on board, it took, tender any ciremnstancee, a long time to get up sufficient steam to work her engines. In a few minutes after s nding the two boats to the Florida, Captain Woodward, of the Atlanta, came himself on board to see what could be done to keep her afloat. But it was apparent that she must soon sink, and the men were ordered to save their effects and prepare to leave her to her fate. 'the Florida kept rapidly filling, so that at 7 o'clock the water was a foot above the berth deck. At the same time that Mr Baker signalled the Atlanta he sent a telegraphic message to Admiral Porter at this place, that the Florida was sinking. The Admiral immediately ordered the tug page to steam up to the Florida, and tow her into shoal water towards the shore. The tug came alongside at 7 15, but the Florida was by this time so near sinking that it was deemed dangerous to attach it, as, in going d own, she would take the tug along w ith her. A few minutes after, with eight feet of water in her, she careened over, and disappeared, stern f oremos t, Mr Baker and Captain Woodward remained alongside in the tug until she Wert under. The Florida had all her guns and everything on board, just as when she was captured. The cause of her sinking is considered undoubtedly to be the collision with the transport steamer, and it is supposed the Governm e nt will call upon the owners of th at vessel for damages. There is a feeling of general satisfsetion among naval officers hero at the fate of the Florida. It is considered much preferable to have her disposed hare, and indanui'y be offered to the Brazilian Governme nt, than suffer the humiliation of taking her back, and s eeing her saluted as she would en t er t h e harbour of Rio Janeiro in triumph, with the rebel flag fly ing. This would have been a most bitter pill to the Ame rican officers who would have to ace mpany her. It is not definitely known what caused the water suddenly to pour into the Florida in so much greater volume after mid night than on the morning she sank. The engineer thought that something had happened to the sea -cocks of the en gines, and others supposed tbat some portion of the bettors planks had given way. After tho collision with the Alliance, the Admiral caused her to be lightened several feet, to as to have less suraee under NI titer, .Nl4.lvsrAP_Eit .. Naval and MilitartintgThoefick--...: • ",• , VALETTA; Dec, B. e unispin, _War stea mer Begi came into this port yeiterdaYliannaltirnia. It is said she h as despatches on. 'Nerd; oitth e eir na tura nothing h as transpired. There hav been several movements of men-of-war during the week. Her Majesty's paddlewheel frigate Magicienne, 16, Capt. Armytage, returned from Patras on the 2d inst. in two days, having on board as passengers Capt. Bland, R E., and Capt. Bowden, who had proceeded in her from Malta. The screw sloop Racer, 6, Csmmander Saulcz, arrived from Tunis in 26 hours on the same day, and left this aterneon on retdrn to the coast of the Regency. The Pelican, 17, Commander Comber, for Zantas and Corfu, and ihe Assur,acce, 4, Commander Woolcombe, for the Pit ceua of Athens, also leit tcsday. Yesterday morn.. ing effieial intelligence having been receivkd of the promution to Vice-Admiral of Rear• Admiral H. T. Austin, C. 8., Superintendent of the Malta Dock yard, he shiltad his flag on board her Mjenty's ship Hibernia, under a salute from the Gibraltar, flagship of the Vice-Admiral Commander-in-Chief. A court-martial was held on Saturday last on board her Majesty's ship Hibernia, to try the carpenter, second-class, John Paine, of her Majesty's ship Cos sack, on a charge of drunkenness on board. Capt. Prevost, commanding her Majesty's ship Gibraltar, sat as president, and Mr Royle, R.N., acting secret tars to the Commander•in-Chief, officiated as judge advocate. The charge was proved, and the prisca oar was sentenced to be dismissed from her Ma,. jesty's service. The following passengers halve arrived since the departure of the last mail—Oapt. Davidson, 22d Regiment, end family ; Capt. _Boyce and family; Major Trevor, Lieut. and Mrs Carey, Lady Houlton, Capt. Barton, Sergeant Roe, Sera geant Cusack, and Sub-Lieutenant Sullivan, R.N., The missing screw steamer Danube, of Liverpool, arrived safely into part yesterday from Alexandria, having been driven thrice by stormy weather from, within 50 miles of this island towards the coast of Barbary, out of the track of all vessels from which she might have sought assistance. On arrival here she bad but I cwt. of coals on board, the remainder of a stcck of 8 tons, which had been reserved for an emergency when she was put under canvas 10 days Ago. A screw steamer called the Dessouk, one of several in course of construction for the Viceroy of Egypt, arrived here on Sunday night from England, and after replenishing fuel left for Alexandria, con signed to the agent of the Peninsular and Oriental. Company. The Austrian screw frigate Raclelzki., Capt. A. Barry, continued her voyage on Monday lest for the Adriatic. The Duke of Cambridge, accompanied by the lien. Col. Curzon (Aide-de-Camp), Gen. the Hon. Sir James Yorke Scarlett (Aclj t.-Gen.), Gen. Sir Richard Altey (Quartermaster-Gen.), Major-Gen. Hamilton, C. 8., end Col. Addison (of the Council of Military Education), end a large number of the members, of the Staff at headquarters, left town yesterday morn. ing, at 8 o'clock, to attend the half.yearly exami.. nation at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. The Duke and company returned home shortly after 5 o'cicck. Mr Childers, M.P., Civil Lord of the Admiralty— Major Clarke, RE., Threetor of Works—and Mr Robinson, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from the Admiralty, and were engaged in the dockyard dui ing the day. Yesterday the ironclad screw frigate Valiant, 24, 4,063 tons, 800• horse power, received on board from the Ordnmee-wherf, Chatham, upwards of 60 tons of solid 68• pounder spherical cast-iron shot and 110• pounder and 40-pounder Armstrong shot. According to existing orders received at Chatham, the Valient will not be armed with any of the 12-ton 300-pounder rifled Armstrongs, but will carry 16 of the 61 tons 100 pounder smoothbore Armstrongs. The only vessels ordered to be sup-. plied at Chatham with the 300-pounder Armstrong's are the following ironclads, which will carry the proportion of ordnance named—viz., the Beilero. phon, 14, 1 ,1,000 horse power, 10 300-pounders; the Royal Savereign, 5, 800 horse power, 5, 300 pours• ders; the Northurnb:rland, 26, 1,350 horse power ; the Agincourt, 26, 1,350 horse power; the Mino taur, 26, 1,350 horse power; the Prince Albert, 4, 500 horse power; the Scorpion, 4, 1,000 horse power; and the Wyvern, 4, 1,000 horse power, each four 300-pounders. The first supply of the 12-ton guns are expected shortly to ba received at Chatham from the Royal gun factory. Admiralty instructions were yesterday received at Wool wich ordering the immediate sale by auction of the whole of the plant and materials of the Admi ralty shipbuilding yard at Blackwall, adjoining that of Messrs. Westwood and Baillie, in which the iron steamship Valiant was recently built. The Torch, 5, screw gun vessel, having under. gone a very extensive repair to hull and machinery in the dry dock at Chatham, will be floated out into the harbour on Saturday next. She is complete in her rigging, and only awaits the shipment of her shot, sheil, guns, and sea stores to be ready for the pennant. Her Majesty's paddlewheel steam sloop Trident, Commander Charles Balfour, having landed her ;Ina and ammunition at Woolwich Arsenal rester• day, went into the outer basin of the dockya'd and commenced stripping. She is ordered to be paid out of commission on Tuesday the 20th inst. The East India and London Shipping Company's steamship Calcutta, after discharging her troops, invalided and time expired men, from Madras, sailed from Portsmouth at noon yesterday for London. The Urgent, screw troopship, Cspt. Henderson, yesterday made a trial of her machinery at Spithead, which, however, proved quite unsatisfactory, and will have to be renewed. Capt. W. H. Stewart, C. 8., Superintendent of Chatham Dockyard, having proceeded on a short leave of absence, the duties of superintendent will devolve on Commander R. Stokes, master-attendant of the dockyard. The half-yearly examinations of the shipwright and engineer apprentices commenced on Monday and terminated yesterday at Woolwich. Thirty-two lads passed a highly favourable examination, the result of which was forwarded to the Board of Ad% miralty for consideration. Gen. Sir Geo. Tamer, K,C.8., Col. Commandant of the 121 h Brigade of the Royal Artillery, died on Friday last at Menie-house, Aberdeenshire, where he was born in 1780. He obtained his commission of second-lieut, in the Royal Artillery in January, 179 i. The deceased general was at the capture of the Cape of Good Hopa in 1806; he joined the army in the Peninsula iu Dec., 1813, and served with it until the end of the war. He was present at the bittles of Orthes and Toulouse and at the affAirs of Vie Bigorro and Tarbes. He received the gold medal and one clasp for Orthes and Toulouse. In 1831 he was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath, and in 1862 aKnight Commander of that order of knighthood. Since Aug. 1852 ho had been C 01.4 Commandant of the 12th Brigade Royal Artillery. The following appointments and promotions have been made at the Admiralty :—Capt. A. C. Gordon, to the Cadmus, commissioned—Capt. T. M. S. Pasley, to the Highfiy, commissioned—Command er B. S. de B. Hall, to the Active, vice Heard, whose period of service has since expired—Lieutenant S a muel Long, Lieut. John Fellowee, and Lieut. Thos. Ramsbotbam, to the Cadmus—Lieut. Francis C. Vincent, Lieut. T. P. W. Nesham, and Lieut. S. H. Rickman, to the Highflyer—Lieut. Alexander Topham, to the Defence—Dr A. Brown, surgeon, to the Blenheim—Charles W. Eules, paymaster, to the Victoria—George W. A.llthidgc, assist. pay. master, to the St. Veneent—James B. Rawlings, assist. paymaster, to the Egmont—W. R.Weather ieYuiaB:is;inePleyrn:aster, to the Excellent—J. W. S. Ntt,L confirmed, to the Asia, as super.. numerary. James Barre, acting second class assist. engineer, to the Asia, as supernumerary—G. Woolard in the Trafalgar, Ditsund Clark, supe: numerary in the Asia, and N. D. Chambers in the DauntlesS, promoted to first-class assist. engineers. 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